Nature Communications (Feb 2020)
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies eight new susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
- Kavita Y. Sarin,
- Yuan Lin,
- Roxana Daneshjou,
- Andrey Ziyatdinov,
- Gudmar Thorleifsson,
- Adam Rubin,
- Luba M. Pardo,
- Wenting Wu,
- Paul A. Khavari,
- Andre Uitterlinden,
- Tamar Nijsten,
- Amanda E. Toland,
- Jon H. Olafsson,
- Bardur Sigurgeirsson,
- Kristin Thorisdottir,
- Eric Jorgensen,
- Alice S. Whittemore,
- Peter Kraft,
- Simon N. Stacey,
- Kari Stefansson,
- Maryam M. Asgari,
- Jiali Han
Affiliations
- Kavita Y. Sarin
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Yuan Lin
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, 1050 Wishard Blvd
- Roxana Daneshjou
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Andrey Ziyatdinov
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Gudmar Thorleifsson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc.
- Adam Rubin
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Luba M. Pardo
- Department of Dermatology, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Wenting Wu
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, 1050 Wishard Blvd
- Paul A. Khavari
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Andre Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Tamar Nijsten
- Department of Dermatology, Erasmus University Medical Center
- Amanda E. Toland
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Human Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University
- Jon H. Olafsson
- Landspitali-University Hospital
- Bardur Sigurgeirsson
- Landspitali-University Hospital
- Kristin Thorisdottir
- Landspitali-University Hospital
- Eric Jorgensen
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
- Alice S. Whittemore
- Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine Redwood Bldg
- Peter Kraft
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Simon N. Stacey
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc.
- Kari Stefansson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc.
- Maryam M. Asgari
- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Jiali Han
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, 1050 Wishard Blvd
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14594-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
The authors perform a meta-analysis of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, identifying causal variants within skin-specific regulatory elements.